Albert Einstein The Menace Of Mass Destruction Full Speech -

And we have two bombs now? No. We have many. And soon, other nations will have them too. There is no secret to be kept forever.

The men in Washington, in Moscow, in London — they are good men, many of them. But they are prisoners. They think in terms of "us" versus "them." They think in terms of borders, armies, alliances. They think that more bombs will make them safe. albert einstein the menace of mass destruction full speech

What I must say to you tonight is simple, and it is terrible: And we have two bombs now

We scientists have delivered the power into your hands. It is the power to destroy yourselves. What you do with it — whether you rise to the level of your own peril — is no longer a question for physics. And soon, other nations will have them too

When I first sent my letter to President Roosevelt in 1939, I did so out of the deepest fear that Nazi Germany would succeed in building an atomic bomb. We had reason to believe their scientists were capable of such a horror. I acted to prevent a nightmare.

I am grateful for this opportunity to speak with you tonight. I speak not as a physicist, but as a human being — a citizen of this world, deeply troubled by the shadow that has fallen upon it.

We have seen what it does. One bomb — one single bomb — erased a city from the earth. Men, women, children, the old and the newborn — turned to ash in a single flash of heat brighter than the sun. Those who did not die instantly wandered the ruins, their skin hanging from their bodies, their eyes melted, their lungs filled with invisible death that would kill them weeks later — slowly, quietly, cruelly.